Water & Wastewater Recruiter
Kansas City, MO
KC Water's Overflow Control Program, known locally as the Smart Sewer Program, is a 25-year, $2.5 billion federal consent decree effort that remains one of the largest wastewater capital programs in the Midwest.
Specialized staffing for Kansas City water infrastructure
Metro Associates is a leading water and wastewater engineering recruiter providing specialized staffing solutions across Kansas City and the Heartland. We help firms and utilities hire licensed Professional Engineers (PE), process engineers, and construction inspection specialists across treatment, distribution, and collection-system disciplines, for projects reviewed under KC Water and beyond.
Locally, that has included work like smart sewer program (federal consent decree). We match vetted talent to the regulatory, operational, and performance demands of that kind of water infrastructure program.
2026 Kansas Citywater & wastewater hiring
Heading into 2026, Kansas City's market is shaped by aging-infrastructure replacement, PFAS and emerging-contaminant compliance, and federally funded resiliency work. Licensed process engineers and inspection specialists who can deliver permit-compliant, resilient systems remain in short supply.
Pay for these roles moves with local cost of labor and project mix, so we publish ranges nationally rather than implying a Kansas City-specific figure we have not measured. See the national water & wastewater compensation ranges, or ask us what we are seeing in Kansas City right now.
Supporting Kansas Citywater & wastewater programs
What else is being built in Kansas City
Our other practices are working the same metro. The programs below are what they are staffing in Kansas City right now, useful context if your project sits across more than one discipline, which most of them do.
- MoDOT highway and bridge programs
- KC Streetcar and RideKC transit expansion
- Missouri River crossings and levee systems
- Data-center design-build
- Hospital and healthcare-system infrastructure
- Animal-health & life-science facility MEP
- Buck O'Neil Bridge resident engineering
- I-70 Improvement Program inspection
- KCI Airport apron materials testing
- Smart Sewer consent-decree overflow program
- Street preservation capital improvement program
- Site plan & plat review for two-state growth
Water & wastewater recruiting in Kansas City, FAQ
Do you place water and wastewater engineers in Kansas City, MO?
Yes, we actively recruit water and wastewater engineers for Kansas City and the Heartland, from licensed PEs to process engineers and construction inspection specialists.
What water/wastewater roles do you recruit for in Kansas City?
Typical Kansas City searches include Water/Wastewater Project Engineer (PE), Senior Process Engineer, Water Resources Engineer, Utility/Pipeline Design Engineer, and SCADA/Controls Engineer.
How quickly can you fill a water/wastewater position in Kansas City?
With a national pipeline of pre-vetted water and wastewater professionals, we typically deliver a shortlist of qualified MO candidates within days, every placement backed by our guarantee.
Do you recruit for NPDES permitting and utility compliance work?
Yes. Candidates are screened for NPDES permitting, SCADA/instrumentation, and utility rehabilitation experience, matched against KC Water and Missouri's regulatory requirements.
Hiring water & wastewater engineers in Kansas City?
Tell us about the role. We'll deliver a vetted shortlist of licensed MO water and wastewater talent, backed by our placement guarantee.
Water & wastewater recruiting across the Upper Midwest
Other engineering disciplines in Kansas City